Alex Badasci Lindmeier, seeking to settle down with his girlfriend, passed up
an “awesome” $300,000 studio condo in Hong Kong, where they were living. “It’s
such an overdeveloped place,” he says. “It was hard to find any real opportunities
to do anything exciting because there’s so much competition.” Instead he
bought and rehabbed a 90-year-old beauty in Detroit for about $24,000. Despite
his fears, he’s seen no crime: “That’s isolated, turf-related, drug stuff.”